Chalky

Its Northern Soul dancing by numbers, 1,2,3,4 kick,1,2,3,4 spin etc. It was the individualism and competition if you like that made the scene so cool and energetic and the dancing the envy of many. The majority of the time the kicks and spins are not in keeping with the beat, just spinning kicking and dropping for the sake of it. They do not get it and never will.

Think Jimmy sold Keb a spare as it was in 85 when Keb was playing it at Stafford

Joan Smith her real name. Comments in this video

Someone has obviously entered the wrong info on discogs, regular thing on there. She gets a mention in Billboard Dec 1966 according to a post on 45cat so likely recorded and released the same month given the next 45, Jimmy Holiday was Jan 67.

Yes murdered in the early 80s during a break in at his LA home. Think he’d jacked the music biz and gone hairdressing I seem to remember reading.

A bumper summer selection of current and forthcoming releases. Regi Myrix feat. Lamar Kelsey - If You Don’t Mind (Nigel Lowis Remix) Mantis - Love Was Born For Me - Epsilon Records Rose Cornelius - I Want You To Stay With Me - Disco Bizarre Rose Cornelius - Here - Disco Bizarre Force - Holy Moses - Cannonball Unity - The Other Side Of You - Forthcoming Soul Direction Herb Rooney - Curse The Brother - Forthcoming Shotgun Chen Haynes - Please Don’t Go - Stream Records George Soul - Midnight Affair - Hit & Run Darrow Fletcher - Hope For Love - Forthcoming Kent Joe Graham - Higher Than High - Forthcoming Kent GC Cameron - Hold You To Your Promise - Forthcoming Shotgun Johnnie Taylor - A Love To Call Mine - Forthcoming Shotgun John Edwards - It’s Got To be The Real Thing - Forthcoming Kent Darrow Fletcher - No Limit - Forthcoming Kent George Soul - Cross My Heart - Hit & Run Clyde Jackson - I Need Your Love - Forthcoming Kent Sandra Wright - I Came Running Back - Forthcoming Shotgun Bonnie Blanchard & Andy Aaron - You’re The Only One - Hit & Run Jesse James - Everybody’s Talking At Me - Soul Junction Jesse James - More Than A Friend Of Mine - Soul Junction Andy Aaron - Right On Time - Hit & Run The Sheppards - Stubborn Heart - Forthcoming Kent Repro Tommy Rodgers - Give Me My Freedom - MD Records The Falcons - Love Like You never Been Loved - Big Man Records Tommy Rodgers - Tell It To The Wind - MD Records Tommy Rodgers - Pass The Word - MD Records The Falcons - Love Look In Her Eyes - Big Man Records Tommy Rodgers - Untied Hearts of America - MD Records The Sheppards - How Do You Like It - Forthcoming Kent Repro Force De La Vie - Holy Moses - Cannonball The Creators - I Can’t Believe It’s True - Stream Clyde Jackson - We’re In Love - Forthcoming Kent Sandra Wright - I’m Not Strong Enough To Love You Again - Forthcoming Shotgun Brenda Rooney - Moving Day - Forthcoming Shotgun Unity - Going To A Carnival - Forthcoming Soul Direction Mantis - Do We Have A Love - Epsilon Records Regi Myrix feat Lina - Let It Go

Studio guests this week. Simon Ingham and Sean Gibbons discuss the revived Morecambe Soul Promotions.

It's pretty hard for any artist or band to replicate the studio on stage. I've seen some who were extremely good on stage with some very close to the studio.

The Kay-O release had some turntable action at the more discerning venues

Happy birthday Lorraine x

I don’t think they do see it as personal attacks do they? I don’t think they want to be portrayed as they do in the media. Maybe as I said below they are tired of the lazy journalism and simply reeling out the same sterotypical soundbites, dress sense and records

Maybe some of us are simply tired of the way that Northern Soul is portrayed by the media. Lazy stereotypical journalism. Same tired records, Frank Wilson etc, dress code, even Stuart Marconie says this in the BBC four radio programme. It is piss poor and not how the scene actually is today, might be on the parody side of it but not the venues I have attending over the years. Maybe it is time the BBC and other media outlets did approach someone who did many nights at the casino and has remained on the scene to this day? There are enough about who are involved not just attending but running events, record labels and write about the scene. Maybe then you wouldn’t get forums like this criticising what has been written or shown on TV. As for Stuart Marconie, the difference between Wigan and Mecca….he even got that wrong really as up to the mid 70s Mecca discovered many Northern Soul monsters before the difference in styles was different, you only have to look at Mecca playlists up to 74/75 etc. It cannot be explained in a few minutes and maybe it is time they stopped trying to? You say you don’t want shooting for airing your views but want to shoot others for doing just the same as you? Oh, I and many others found the scene without any press, media or TV interference. If you want something different to what you are being fed in life you will find it.

His contribution to Wigan etc cannot be denied. But it is his contribution since and more so of late that I refer to as the ringmaster. His events or the event s he is involved with are a parody of the once great scene he represented. Craig Charles, he has nothing whatsoever to do with the Northern Soul scene, he doesn't nor has he to my knowledge been to events? I have seen him, he Dj'ed at a Lee Fields gig in Manchester, played a mix of soul and funky stuff, nothing to write home about really.

Same old drivel. Same old lazy journalism, same old tired played out records. Where do they get these people from? Winstanley has become a joke, the ringmaster of the circus

🙄😂 divfest. Perfect example of the kind of people we went to nighters to get away from.

Special guests in the studio this week, Tony Lewis and Elaine Sawetz with some great choices and banter.

So how does that apply to say Ady Croasdell, Richard Searling etc? They have covered up many records? Have you done as much as them for the artists and plenty of other Djs who have covered up records?

Jeez cover ups again. What pointless petty arguments. They are failed records in the retail world, (re)discovered years later and reactivated by an underground dance scene 1000s of miles away. The vast majority of artists associated with the scene would have had no recognition at all if it wasn’t for the diggers, Djs and collectors. Some of those covering records up have done more for these artists than anyone else.

It is absolute rubbish to suggest members on here or on the "scene" wish to keep the music for themselves. Many are protective of the scene and if it wasn't for the scene and the diggers then the BBC wouldn't have anything to "celebrate". As said many times every time someone tries to jump on the bandwagon, further "divvyfication", they do not do the scene justice. The concert orchestra of The BBC have so far made a mess of the other acts they have tried to "celebrate". Buddy Holly was pretty bad, Elvis not much better. The further divvyfication by The BBC Concert Orchestra, the vocals I have heard so far from The Proms wasn't that great either. I don't hold too much hope out for the rest when I watch. As said previously by myself, Paul and others, this is everything the scene isn't, it is everything we went to nighters to escape and the people around this the very kind of person we went to nighters to avoid. It would appear most of you do not get that, maybe you were never fully invested in the scene like many who knows?

But as you well know you missed an absolute wealth of soulful material. Neither was the scene confined to just Wigan as you seem to continuously suggest with some from that list from other venues.

I just google, and use one in the list it throws up. Youtube change the coding or whatever every now and then so some stop working

Great story and great work by you all, keep it up.

Here is the interview Bill did Wirth CP Spencer. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/karlwhite/episodes/2023-07-18T09_31_09-07_00

It wasn't the glowing review you lot on here give it was it?